There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!
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I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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Work is the best antidote to sorrow.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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